From help-request at octave dot org Wed Mar  9 13:42:23 2005
Subject: Re: save function
From: Hamish Allan <hamish at frontcompany dot com>
To: mavram at bezeqint dot net
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 13:35:32 -0600

Your email seems to suggest you feel that people who use more powerful 
operating systems should be subject to more minor annoyances, to the 
extent that you would deliberately introduce cross-platform 
incompatibilities.

I cannot disagree strongly enough.

Best wishes,
Hamish

p.s. Your feeling is at least partly incorrect too (I am a Mac OS X 
user).

On Mar 9, 2005, at 19:07, mavram at bezeqint dot net wrote:

> My feeling is that most of the outcry about the behaviour of save
> came from people using octave on windows. For most people on Unix-like
> systems, with all the power of the shell at their finger-tips, the
> different behaviour of save in octave vs matlab is either a
> definite advantage or a minor annoyance.
> I would suggest therefore, that, should a change be made, this be
> applied only to the windows distributions. Unix users, could, if
> interested, download the m-file and store it, under some other
> name in the one of hte directories in which they store their own
> scripts.
> My two cents...
> Avraham



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